Tool stock or handle



1 (No Model.)

R. A. SMALL,

TOOL STOCK 0R HANDLE.V N0.YZ99,428. Patented May 27, 1884.

J//W j" f UNITED STATES ROBERT A. SMALL, OF JFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA.

Tool. sTocK 0RL HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,428, dated May 27,1884.

i Applicationiled June 12, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom t may 0011.067512,

Be it known'that I, ROBERT A. SMALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jeffersonville, in the county of Clarke and State ofIndiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tool Stocks orHandles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel tool handle orstock,whereby a pair of jaws may be caused to protrude from a hollowstock to receive the shank of a tool or other implement, and then bedrawn into the stock to grasp and hold the tool to permit it to bemanipulated. I

The invention consists in the combination and construction of partshereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tool stock orhandle, and Fig. 2 a similar view of a modiiication.

Referring to Fig. l of the drawings,`the letter A indicates a tubularstock or handle in the form of a cylinder open at each end, within andprojecting from the open extremities of which are arranged two pairs ofjaws, D D2, having collars g, from which the shanks of the jaws taperinwardly. The'adjacent faces of each pair of jaws are formed withopenings of such size and shape as to receive the shank of a tool orother implement, and the jaws are preferably connected together adjacentto the center of the stock by a screw or otherwise, so that when suchjaws are moved longitudinally, one pair will be drawn into the tubularstock until their collar g bears upon the open end of the stock, andtheother pair will be projected from the stock, and, owing to the inherentelasticity of the jaws, the projected pair will separate or open for thepurpose of receiving the shank of atool.

For the purpose of adjusting the jaws,as alluded to, the tubular stockis provided at about midway of its length with a slot, Z, through whichprojects a pin, e', secured to the Shanks or inner extremities of thejaws, and a slidepiece, m, may be attached to the pin for the -purposeof covering the slot and moving the pin, all in such manner that bypushing the 'that the intervening space will be -oli' taperingform,whereby, when one pair of j aws is pushed outward, the stud willact to force them apart or separate them sufficiently to receive theshank of the tool or release the latter, after which such pair of jawsis drawn into the stock until their collar g rests on vthe end thereof,the binding action of the stock on the jaws closing the latter together,and causing them to iirmly grasp and hold the tool.

Two tool-stocks of thev construction above described may be convenientlyemployed-one for holding the work by the ift hand, and the other forholding the tool to be used in the right hand.

In Fig. 2 I have shown but one pair of jaws inthe tubular stock A, theother end of the" latter being closed by a suitable cap; and instead ofmoving the jaws by a pin and slot, as in Fig. 1, I construct the stockwith spiral or curved slots s, into which project studs e2, secured tothe shank of the jaws. A ring, F,

4encircling the tubular stock, and attached to the central stud, c2, isemployed for. causing said studs to traverse the spiral or curved slots,and thereby actuate the jaws.

1. The combination, with a tubular stock open at both ends, ofclamping-jaws projecting from each end of the stock, said, jaws beingconnected together and of greater length than the stock, whereby whenone pair of jaws are drawn into the' stock and clamped the other pairare protruded from the opposite end and released, substantially asdescribed.

-2. The combination, with a hollow tubular stock, of two pairs ofclampingjaws set therein,and constructed so that when drawn into the endof the stock the j aws will be clamped, a pin rigid with said jaws andprotruding through a sl'ot in the stock, and means for actuating saidpin Within Idie slot to throw the jaws in In testimony whei'coflluvehereunto setmy and out, substantially as described. i hand iu thepresence 0f two subscribing witio 8. The eombinzitiomwith the tubularstock, Messes. of grasping-jmvs set within its open end7 a. pin n n l i5 rigid with the jaws and traveling iu :L slot in ROLLRL A' SMALL' thestock, and :L stud rigid on the stock and fitnessesz projeetinginwardlybetween the jaws, substani JOSEPH E. DUNLEYY,

tiiilly as and for the purpose described. l PATRICK H. JBWETT.

